Born in Xinyang, Henan in 1907, Peng Xuefeng was influenced by progressive teachers as a student, read a large number of progressive books and periodicals, and later participated in the May Thirtieth Movement, met several underground workers, and embarked on the revolutionary road.
Although Peng Xuefeng did not receive systematic military education, he was a natural general, and within a few years of joining the Red Army, he became the political commissar of the Red Second Division, and successfully smashed a defection plot of the Second Division.
It turned out that after Peng Xuefeng was promoted to political commissar of the Second Red Division, he not only did a good job in political work, but also commanded well in fighting battles; a few months after taking office, the combat effectiveness of the Red Second Division increased quite a bit, so that Peng Xuefeng's prestige in the Second Division became greater and greater, causing dissatisfaction among division commander Guo Bingsheng.
One day in August 1932, Peng Xuefeng led the Red 6th Regiment, the 7th Regiment and the division's direct subordinate units out on a mission, Guo Bingsheng saw that the time had come, he lied that the troops had suffered heavy losses from the enemy attack, and the division's political commissar Peng Xuefeng was also killed, and he ordered Bai Zhiwen, the leader of the Fifth Regiment, to lead his troops to follow him to Fuzhou, and the direction of Fuzhou was the White District.
When Peng Xuefeng returned to the garrison, he found that the situation was not right, took more than a dozen people to chase them, and finally found them in the evening, the officers and men of the Fifth Regiment were very happy to see Peng Xuefeng, and in the questioning of Guo Shi commander by Commissar Peng, they also understood what was going on, and they all insisted on returning to the Soviet area.
It took no effort to solve the defection and recover the losses of the troops, and soon after, Peng Xuefeng was awarded the "Red Star Medal".
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Peng Xuefeng served as the commander and political commissar of the sixth detachment of the New Fourth Army, and in August 1940, the New Second Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and the Sixth Detachment of the New Fourth Army were merged into the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army, and the commander of the column was Peng Xuefeng.
At that time, among the seven divisions of the New Fourth Army, the combat effectiveness of the fourth division was countable, why were people so powerful? Because the Fourth Division had a cavalry regiment.
Since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, during Peng Xuefeng's tenure in the Sixth Detachment of the New Fourth Army and the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army, the troops were all surprised by the enemy. All because the enemy is in a car or a cavalry unit, and the speed of maneuver is fast. Peng Xuefeng, who had suffered a heavy loss, was determined to establish his own cavalry unit soon after the establishment of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army.
In order to buy horses and equipment, he squeezed out thirty thousand Huaibei coins, which is the vegetable gold of the commanders and fighters of the whole division for half a year, and also mobilized the commanders and fighters at all levels of the division to donate horses to the cavalry regiment, in order to enhance its combat effectiveness, he also led people to specially design a kind of saber, this knife gathers the advantages of various sabers in China, the biggest feature is that it is 5 centimeters longer than the Japanese sabre and has a hand guard, which has the characteristics of light and agile, light and thin back, and long to defeat the enemy. The warriors loved it after using it, calling it the "Snow Maple Knife".
Under the hard training of cavalry fighters, it soon became a trump card of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, and on the vast Huaibei Plain, the cavalry regiment of the Fourth Division was really victorious in battle.
At this time, the fourth division was strong and strong, but The commander of The Peng Division, who had paid great efforts for this, came to an end in his life, and on September 11, 1944, when Peng Xuefeng was commanding the battle at the front, he was hit by a stray bullet and died on the spot, only 37 years old.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the seven masters of the New Fourth Army, Su Yu, Zhang Yunyi, and Huang Kecheng, who participated in the awarding of titles, were all awarded the rank of general, and if Peng Xuefeng did not sacrifice, he might also be a founding general.
When General Peng Xuefeng was killed, his wife Lin Ying was pregnant, and five months later his son Peng Xiaofeng was born, although Peng Xiaofeng had never met his father, he inherited his father's excellent revolutionary tradition, and when he grew up, he joined the army, starting from an ordinary soldier, and by 2006 he had become a general.